From George Kjelland
Brodhead
To the editor:
400 words? My first draft ran to 400 plus words and I was just skipping along the surface. If Gov. Walker had just canceled the Madison/Milwaukee rail corridor I would have not liked it but would have taken it, after all he did campaign on that. It's all the other things that he did not campaign on that caused me to become active in the recall effort. His shoddy union-busting tactics when he said he would work with unions if elected, his assault on Medicaid and BadgerCare, trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and middle class while giving millions in tax breaks to corporations to stimulate job growth and generating what has been termed the worst job grown in the nation. The rollback of equal pay for women and his attack on women in general, the drastic cuts to education and his inclusion of abstinence only sex education. Really? Why not just have a class on how the stork brings babies or how babies are found under cabbage plants. That will have as much effect on teen pregnancy as abstinence only.
The Republican legislature's high-handed tactics in passing his agenda with little or no discussion and in some instances in direct contradiction of open meeting laws was reprehensible. Laws passed that were little more than copies of ALEC created bills meant to further a conservative business agenda with no thought as to how they would affect our electorate. Think voter ID legislation in the absence of voter fraud. This was all done in a low and mean-spirited way. Add in a "John Doe" investigation that has already ensnared six of his political compatriots and I'm thankful Wisconsin has recall legislation. Soon we will vote on this and those who agree with the recall have an easy decision. Those who oppose have made up their minds as well. It's the middle ground that will decide the issue. I urge those of you sitting on the fence to consider the damage that has been done to our fine state and vote to change our leadership. We can't continue on this way.
Brodhead
To the editor:
400 words? My first draft ran to 400 plus words and I was just skipping along the surface. If Gov. Walker had just canceled the Madison/Milwaukee rail corridor I would have not liked it but would have taken it, after all he did campaign on that. It's all the other things that he did not campaign on that caused me to become active in the recall effort. His shoddy union-busting tactics when he said he would work with unions if elected, his assault on Medicaid and BadgerCare, trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and middle class while giving millions in tax breaks to corporations to stimulate job growth and generating what has been termed the worst job grown in the nation. The rollback of equal pay for women and his attack on women in general, the drastic cuts to education and his inclusion of abstinence only sex education. Really? Why not just have a class on how the stork brings babies or how babies are found under cabbage plants. That will have as much effect on teen pregnancy as abstinence only.
The Republican legislature's high-handed tactics in passing his agenda with little or no discussion and in some instances in direct contradiction of open meeting laws was reprehensible. Laws passed that were little more than copies of ALEC created bills meant to further a conservative business agenda with no thought as to how they would affect our electorate. Think voter ID legislation in the absence of voter fraud. This was all done in a low and mean-spirited way. Add in a "John Doe" investigation that has already ensnared six of his political compatriots and I'm thankful Wisconsin has recall legislation. Soon we will vote on this and those who agree with the recall have an easy decision. Those who oppose have made up their minds as well. It's the middle ground that will decide the issue. I urge those of you sitting on the fence to consider the damage that has been done to our fine state and vote to change our leadership. We can't continue on this way.
